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Placer County APCD 102 - 1 Rules and Regulations

RULE 102 DEFINITIONS

Adopted 11-12-74

(Amended 5-24-77, 12-19-78, 6-19-79, 5-20-85, 2-04-92, 10-19-93, 8-08-96, 6-19-97, 10-12-00, 8-12-10)

CONTENTS

100 GENERAL

101 PURPOSE

200 DEFINITIONS

201 AGRICULTURAL BURNING

202 AGRICULTURAL OPERATION

203 AGRICULTURAL WASTES

204 AIR CONTAMINANT

205 AIR POLLUTION CONTROL OFFICER

206 ALTERATION

207 APPROVED IGNITION DEVICES

208 ARB

209 BOARD

210 BRUSH TREATED

211 BULK PLANT

212 CITRUS HEATER

213 COMBUSTIBLE WASTE

214 COMBUSTION CONTAMINANT

215 CONDENSED FUMES

216 CONSTRUCTION-DEMOLITION DEBRIS

217 DAILY

218 DESIGNATED AGENCY

219 DISTRICT

220 DUST

221 EMISSION

222 EMISSION POINT

223 EXEMPT COMPOUNDS

224 FLAMMABLE WASTE

225 FLUE

226 FOREST MANAGEMENT BURNING

227 FOSSIL FUEL

228 FOSSIL FUEL-FIRED STEAM GENERATOR

229 HEARING BOARD

230 HYDROCARBON

231 INCINERATION

232 INCINERATOR

233 INSTALLATION

234 LAKE TAHOE AIR BASIN

235 NO-BURN DAY

236 OPEN OUTDOOR FIRE

237 OPERATOR

238 ORCHARD HEATER

239 OWNER

240 PARTICULATE MATTER

241 PERMISSIVE BURN DAY

242 PERSON

243 POLLUTANT

244 PROCESS WEIGHT PER HOUR
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245 PUBLIC RECORD

246 QUARTERLY

247 RANGE IMPROVEMENT BURNING

248 RECORD

249 RESIDENTIAL ALLOWABLE BURN MATERIALS

250 SECTION

251 SILVICULTURAL PRACTICES

252 SOLID PARTICULATE MATTER

253 STANDARD CONDITIONS

254 STANDARD CUBIC FOOT OF GAS

255 TIMBER OPERATIONS

256 VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND (VOC)

257 WOOD-FIRED BOILER

258 YEARLY

300 STANDARDS

(NOT INCLUDED)

400 ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS

(NOT INCLUDED)

500 MONITORING AND RECORDS

(NOT INCLUDED)
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100 GENERAL

101 PURPOSE: To provide definitions of specific terms used in the Placer County Air 

Pollution Control District Rules and Regulations.

200 DEFINITIONS

PROVISO: Except as otherwise specifically provided in these Rules, and except where the 

context otherwise indicates, words used in these Rules are used in exactly the same sense as 

the same words are used in the Health and Safety Code of the State of California.

201 AGRICULTURAL BURNING: Open outdoor fires used in agricultural operations in the

growing of crops or raising of fowl or animals or open outdoor fires used in forest 

management, range improvement, or the improvement of land for wildlife and game 

habitat or disease or pest prevention or the use of open outdoor fires used in the 

operation or the maintenance of a system for the delivery of water.

202 AGRICULTURAL OPERATION: The growing and harvesting of crops, raising of fowl or 

animals for the primary purpose of making a profit or providing a livelihood, or the 

conducting of agricultural research or instruction by an educational institution. Agricultural 

operations do not include activities involving the processing or distribution of crops or 

fowl.

203 AGRICULTURAL WASTES: The unwanted or unsellable materials produced wholly from 

agricultural operations and materials not produced from agricultural operations, but which 

are intimately related to the growing or harvesting of crops.

204 AIR CONTAMINANT: Any discharge, release or other propagation directly into the 

atmosphere. It includes, but is not limited to, smoke, dust, charred paper, soot, grime, 

carbon, noxious acids, fumes, gases, odors, particulate matter, or any combination 

thereof.

205 AIR POLLUTION CONTROL OFFICER (APCO): The Air Pollution Control Officer of the 

Placer County Air Pollution Control District, or designee.

206 ALTERATION: Any addition to, enlargement of, replacement of, or any major 

modification or change of the design, capacity, process, or arrangement, or any increase 

in the connected loading of equipment or control apparatus, which will increase or affect 

the kind and/or amount of air contaminants emitted.

207 APPROVED IGNITION DEVICES: Those instruments or materials that will ignite open 

fires without the production of black smoke by the ignition device. This would include 

such items as liquid petroleum gas, butane, propane, or diesel oil burners, flares, or other 

similar material as approved by the Air Pollution Control Officer. This does not include 

tires, tar, tar paper, oil and other similar materials.

208 ARB: The California State Air Resources Board or any person authorized to act on its 

behalf.

209 BOARD: The Board of Directors of the Placer County Air Pollution Control District.

210 BRUSH TREATED: Material which has been felled crushed or up-rooted with mechanical 

equipment or which has been desiccated with herbicides.

211 BULK PLANT: A distribution plant which receives organic liquids; stores them in 

stationary tanks; and loads them into tank trucks for delivery to other bulk plants, service 

stations or storage tanks.
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212 CITRUS HEATER: Any article, machine, equipment, or other contrivance, burning any 

type of fuel or material capable of emitting air contaminants, used or capable of being 

used for the purpose of giving protection from frost damage.

213 COMBUSTIBLE WASTE: Any garbage, rubbish, trash, rags, paper, boxes, crates, 

excelsior, ashes, offal, carcass of a dead animal, petroleum product waste or any other 

combustible or flammable refuse material.

214 COMBUSTION CONTAMINANT: Any particulate matter discharged into the atmosphere 

from the burning of any material which contains carbon in either the free or the combined 

state.

215 CONDENSED FUMES: Minute solid particles generated by the condensation of vapors 

from solid matter after volatilization from the molten state, or may be generated by 

sublimation, distillation, calcination, or chemical reaction, when these processes create 

airborne particles.

216 CONSTRUCTION-DEMOLITION DEBRIS: Any material associated with the construction 

or demolition of any building, dwelling, or other man-made structures, including but not 

limited to lumber, tar paper, roofing material, wiring, flooring material, insulation, and 

plywood.

217 DAILY: A 24-hour period beginning at 12:00 AM local time.

218 DESIGNATED AGENCY: Any agency designated by the ARB and Placer County Air 

Pollution Control District as having authority to issue Agricultural Burn Permits.

219 DISTRICT: The Placer County Air Pollution Control District.

220 DUST: The minute solid particles released into the air by natural forces or by mechanical 

processes such as crushing, grinding, milling, drilling, demolishing, shoveling, conveying, 

covering, bagging, sweeping, or other similar process.

221 EMISSION: The act of releasing or discharging air contaminants into the atmosphere 

from any source.

222 EMISSION POINT: The place, located in a horizontal plane and vertical elevation, at 

which an emission enters the atmosphere.

223 EXEMPT COMPOUNDS: Organic compounds which are exempt from the definition of 

Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC). Notwithstanding definitions of Exempt Compounds 

that may be included in specific rules in Regulation II, the following compounds are 

exempt: 

223.1 carbon monoxide

223.2 carbon dioxide

223.3 carbonic acid

223.4 metallic carbides or carbonates

223.5 ammonium carbonate

223.6 methane

223.7 methylene chloride (dichloromethane)

223.8 perchloroethylene (tetrachloroethylene)

223.9 1,1,1-trichloroethane (methyl chloroform)

223.10 trichlorofluoromethane (CFC-11)

223.11 dichlorodifluoromethane (CFC-12)

223.12 1,1,2-trichloro-1,2,2-trifluoroethane (CFC-113)

223.13 1,2-dichloro-1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethane (CFC-114)

223.14 chloropentafluoroethane (CFC-115)
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223.15 chlorodifluoromethane (HCFC-22)

223.16 1,1,1-trifluloro-2,2-dichloroethane (HCFC-123)

223.17 1,1-dichloro-1-fluoroethane (HCFC-141b)

223.18 1-chloro-1,1-difluoroethane (HCFC-142b)

223.19 2-chloro-1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane (HCFC-124)

223.20 trifluoromethane (HFC-23)

223.21 1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethane (HFC-134)

223.22 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane (HFC-134a)

223.23 pentafluoroethane (HFC-125)

223.24 1,1,1-trifluoroethane (HFC-143a)

223.25 1,1-difluoroethane (HFC-152a)

223.26 ethoxy-nonafluorobutane (HFE-7200), which consists of 2 compounds:

a. ethoxy-1,1,2,2,3,3,4,4,4-nonafluorobutane; and

b. (ethoxydifluoromethyl)-1,1,1,2,3,3,3-heptafluoropropane

223.27 cyclic, branched, or linear, completely methylated siloxanes

223.28 The following classes of perfluorocarbons:

a. cyclic, branched, or linear, completely fluorinated alkanes.

b. cyclic, branched or linear, completely fluorinated ethers with no 

unsaturations.

c. cyclic, branched, or linear, completely fluorinated tertiary amines with no 

unsaturations.

d. sulfur-containing perfluorocarbons with no unsaturations and with the 

sulfur bonds to carbon and fluorine.

223.29 The following low-reactive organic compounds which have been exempted by the 

U. S. EPA:

a. acetone

b. ethane

c. parachlorobenzotrifluoride 

d. methyl acetate

e. propylene carbonate

f. dimethyl carbonate

223.30 The following compound(s) for purposes of all recordkeeping, emissions 

reporting, photochemical dispersion modeling and inventory requirements which 

apply to VOC and shall be uniquely identified in emission reports, but are not 

VOC for purposes of VOC emissions limitations or VOC content requirements:

a. tertiary butyl acetate

224 FLAMMABLE WASTE: Any garbage, rubbish, trash, rags, paper, boxes, crates, 

excelsior, ashes, offal, carcass of a dead animal, petroleum product waste or any other 

combustible or flammable refuse material.

225 FLUE: Any duct or passage for air or other gases, including but not limited to a stack or a 

chimney.

226 FOREST MANAGEMENT BURNING: The use of open fires, as part of a forest 

management practice, to remove forest debris. Forest management practices include 

timber operations, silviculture practices and forest production practices.

227 FOSSIL FUEL: Natural gas, petroleum, coal and any form of solid, liquid, or gaseous fuel 

derived from such materials.

228 FOSSIL FUEL-FIRED STEAM GENERATOR: A furnace or boiler used in the process of 

burning fossil fuel for the primary purpose of producing steam by heat transfer. 

229 HEARING BOARD: The Hearing Board of the Air Pollution Control District of Placer 

County.
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230 HYDROCARBON: Any compound of carbon containing hydrogen.

231 INCINERATION: An operation in which combustion is carried on for the principal 

purpose, or with the principal result of oxidizing a waste material to reduce its bulk or 

facilitate its disposal.

232 INCINERATOR: Any furnace or other closed fire chamber used to dispose of 

combustible waste by burning, and from which the products of combustion are directed 

through a flue or chimney.

233 INSTALLATION: The placement, assemblage, or construction of equipment or control 

apparatus at the premises where the equipment or control apparatus will be used, 

including all preparatory work at such premises.

234 LAKE TAHOE AIR BASIN: That area as defined by Section 60113, Title 17, California 

Administrative Code.

235 NO-BURN DAY: Any day on which agricultural burning is prohibited by the ARB.

236 OPEN OUTDOOR FIRE: Combustion of any combustible material of any type, outdoors 

in the open air, where the products of combustion are not directed through a flue.

237 OPERATOR: Person, who owns, operates, controls or supervises an affected facility, or 

a stationary source of which an affected facility is a part.

238 ORCHARD HEATER: Any article, machine, equipment, or other contrivance, burning any 

type of fuel or material capable of emitting air contaminants, used or capable of being 

used for the purpose of giving protection from frost damage.

239 OWNER: Person who owns, operates, controls or supervises an affected facility, or a 

stationary source of which an affected facility is a part.

240 PARTICULATE MATTER: Any material except uncombined water, which can exist in a 

finely divided form as a liquid or solid at standard conditions.

241 PERMISSIVE BURN DAY: Any day on which agricultural burning is not prohibited by the 

ARB.

242 PERSON: Any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, 

corporation, company, contractor, supplier, installer, operator, user, owner, any 

government agency, public district or any officer or employee thereof.

243 POLLUTANT: Any discharge, release or other propagation directly into the atmosphere. 

It includes, but is not limited to, smoke, dust, charred paper, soot, grime, carbon, noxious 

acids, fumes, gases, odors, particulate matter, or any combination thereof.

244 PROCESS WEIGHT PER HOUR: The total weight, including contained moisture, of all 

materials introduced into any specific process, which process may cause any discharge 

into the atmosphere. Solid fuels charged will be considered as part of the process 

weight, but liquid and gaseous fuels and combustion air will not. (The process weight per 

hour will be derived by dividing the total process weight introduced, by the number of 

hours in one complete operation, from the beginning of any given process to the 

completion thereof, excluding any time during which the equipment is idle.)

245 PUBLIC RECORD: Any record made available to the public by law, containing 

information relating to the conduct of the public's business that is prepared, owned, used 
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or retained by the District, except trade secrets as provided for in Section 6254.7 of the 

California Government Code and relevant sections of the California Administrative Code.

246 QUARTERLY: Calendar quarter beginning January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1.

247 RANGE IMPROVEMENT BURNING: The use of open fires to remove vegetation for a 

wildlife, game or livestock habitat, or for the initial establishment of an agricultural 

practice on previously uncultivated land.

248 RECORD: Handwriting, typewriting, printing, photocopying, photographing, and every 

other means of recording upon any form of communication or representation, including 

letters, words, pictures, sounds, or symbols, or any combination thereof, and all papers, 

maps, magnetic or paper tapes, photographed films and prints, magnetic or punched 

cards, magnetic disks, drums, and other documents.

249 RESIDENTIAL ALLOWABLE BURN MATERIALS: Materials originating from a single or 

two family dwelling on its premises, limited to the following items: dry tree trimmings, dry 

leaves and pine needles, dry plants and dry weeds.

250 SECTION: A Section of the Health and Safety Code of the State of California, unless 

some other statute is specifically mentioned.

251 SILVICULTURAL PRACTICES: The establishment, development, care and reproduction 

of stands of timber.

252 SOLID PARTICULATE MATTER: Any material except uncombined water, which can 

exist in a finely divided form as a solid at standard conditions.

253 STANDARD CONDITIONS: A gas temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit and a gas 

pressure of 14.7 pounds per square inch absolute. Results of all analyses and tests shall 

be calculated and reported at this gas temperature and pressure.

254 STANDARD CUBIC FOOT OF GAS: The amount of gas that would occupy a volume of 

one (1) cubic foot, if free of water vapor, at standard conditions.

255 TIMBER OPERATIONS: Cutting or removal of timber or other forest vegetation.

256 VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND (VOC): Any chemical compound containing at least 

one atom of carbon except for those listed as "Exempt Compounds"

257 WOOD-FIRED BOILER: Any boiler used for steam generation, from which the products 

of combustion are directed through a flue or chimney and which derives at least 80 

percent of its fuel input heat content from wood, or APCO approved wood-associated 

waste.

258 YEARLY: A calendar year beginning on January 1 at 12:00 AM.
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